Moderated Views on George Galloway.

Not advocating violence. Notice the word 'resistance' instead of 'kill'. And notice out he's just pointing out facts that seem a likely certainty due to history, even if some cultures find the reality of the situation hard to contemplate.

He's not inspiring people to do it, he's warning people of what will inevitably happen. He has a track record of being annoyingly right about international events in the middle East, 100% right about Iraq, and 95% right about Afghanistan, and 95% right about most middle eastern countries. 10 positive ratings on such a new video in just 200 views is a very good ratio.

Just getting passionate and angry about a real thing happening today that too few are still passionate and angry about is not a bad thing. Some people have either just chosen to ignore what he speaks about or have just forgotten. Yet it is still happening.
 
MarkCorrigan said:
Well that took about 30 seconds.

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17 seconds of heavily edited video footage devoid of anyvcontext?

You're giving to have to do a lot better than that I'm afraid.

Why is it that critical think skills go to water when people discuss Israel on JREF?
 
Just posted a vid of him slobbering a genocidal mass murderer with praise right to his face. Don't think I can be bothered arguing with sycophants who fail to see a problem with that.

So I'll just post this.
 
Random website with completely false claims. Nice source.

Galloway pwns a n00b a month ago.



I like it when he gets rightfully angry, it's funny.

EDIT: His full speech at the oxford university union is here. His comments defending his position on the Julian Assange case is here. The questions from the tabloid sycophantic audience are sometimes cringe worthy.
 
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He even told the truth about Julian Assange and wikileaks in a news article, and was fired from the paper when he was abroad due to politicians getting annoyed at what he said about the rape charges and the political history of the women that accused him. Without watching the informative documentary about the situation it's very easy to get a completely warped perspective about him.
 
Galloway getting the support of the entire student audience last year and beating his companies arguments into the ground accompanied by echoes of rounds of applause from the audience. Even the host.



:D
 
If only his old pal Saddam could see him.

And his old pal Uday Hussein.

But they can't.

Because they're dead.
 
And good riddance to them.

Galloway hated them. And met Sadam once and Uday once to discuss peaceful ways out of needless conflict. Let me reiterate that; this is far less times than most totally respectable UK and US officials, political or military, the last few decades. Tony Benn interviewed both too.

The difference is the officials went there to sell him guns. They both went there (they are not alone, many more too I wont go into) as politicians to get a view of what is going on in the middle east from the eyes of one of the countries dictators and report back what was said. The full interviews are available online.
 
The people posting that they hate Galloway, etc, are no different to birthers and the other loonies who hate Obama because he's a Commie Muslim Kenyan. Never mind actual facts, Fox News made up some lies about him and that is good enough for them.

Galloway has said and done lots of things that I don't agree with, but he's not as bad as Blair for sucking up to nasty foreigners. He didn't sell anyone weapons, or invade on flimsy pretexts.
 
Croydon Bob said:
The people posting that they hate Galloway, etc, are no different to birthers and the other loonies who hate Obama because he's a Commie Muslim Kenyan. Never mind actual facts, Fox News made up some lies about him and that is good enough for them.

Galloway has said and done lots of things that I don't agree with, but he's not as bad as Blair for sucking up to nasty foreigners. He didn't sell anyone weapons, or invade on flimsy pretexts.
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He gave sacks of money to Hamas, a genocidal terrorist group.

He works for and reguilarly apologizes for the regime in Iran. He's BFFs with Assad.
 
WildCat said:
He gave sacks of money to Hamas, a genocidal terrorist group.
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Are you referring to the £20,000 (or £25,000 plus three cars, depending on source) that he gave to the Ministry of Health in Gaza? Or do you mean the Viva Palistina money that was intended as humanitarian aid for the relief of residents? The claim that some of this money ended up with Hamas came from Fatah, a Palestinian terrorist organisation. Even if true - does this failure to get money to the people that needed it compare to the support for numerous terrorists and fascist regimes around the world by US Presidents? Does this compare to Thatcher's funding of the Khmer Rouge in the 1980s?


I'm not defending his actions in supplying money to Palestinians, I don't know enough about it. As usual neither do you but you've made up your own story anyway and will stick with it regardless of reality.
 
WildCat said:
He works for and reguilarly apologizes for the regime in Iran.
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This is also not correct.

He has done work for "Press TV", but comparing that to working for the regime in Iran is almost like accusing someone who works on Sesame Street of working for the US regime. A state-owned TV station is not the same as the Government, as anyone who has watched BBC news will understand (not that I would trust an Iranian-owned station, or any channel that employs Galloway). He doesn't "reguilarly" apologise for the Iranian regime, you are mistaken again, he did spout a load of offensive nonsense about gay rights in Iran on one occasion.

Thank you for providing further evidence that the Galloway haters are just spewing lies and fiction to try to support their non-skeptical beliefs.
 
How about hating him for supporting Saddam Hussein, the USSR (I'm a socialist and I think that's indefensible) and abandoning his own constituents to bugger off and act like a complete tit with Rula Lenska on national television?

How about hating the man for committing to support an area of London, and trading off his support of Islamic groups in order to get the largely Islamic community to back him and vote him in, then turning his backs on them like the corpulent jackass he is?

What if I hate him for his ideas about sexual etiquette, when he claimed that even if the accusations against Assange were correct that having sex with a woman who is asleep is not rape? What about if it was for his pro-Iranian stance, denying that gay people are executed claiming only rapists are? How about denying that the Tiananmen Square massacre happened, and when he was called on it tried to weasel out of it by saying all he said was that there was no massacre IN the square?

As for your assertion he gave the cars and money to the Ministry of Health well...no.

Wiki said:
"We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of their contents, and we make no apology for what I am about to say. We are giving them to the elected government of Palestine," adding he would personally donate three cars and 25,000 pounds to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.
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Source.
 
WildCat said:
He's BFFs with Assad.
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And this is also not true.

He has been quoted this year as supporting the Arab Spring and saying "Assad must go". So he's guilty of changing his mind and supporting a dictator until it seems like the untenable thing to do, just like most other politicians. Doesn't make Galloway right, but it makes you guilty of evidence-free nonsense.
 
He was my MP for a while and I wrote to him about a problem to do with housing. He did not bother to reply. I wonder if he would have if I had signed off with an Asian sounding name instead of my own Scottish one.

I saw him out campaigning a couple of times and did not like the way he surrounded himself with what could be best described as thugs who were chanting as a way to get their message over. He was at the middle smiling and waving, but totally unapproachable.
 
Croydon Bob said:
Are you referring to the £20,000 (or £25,000 plus three cars, depending on source) that he gave to the Ministry of Health in Gaza? Or do you mean the Viva Palistina money that was intended as humanitarian aid for the relief of residents? The claim that some of this money ended up with Hamas came from Fatah, a Palestinian terrorist organisation. Even if true - does this failure to get money to the people that needed it compare to the support for numerous terrorists and fascist regimes around the world by US Presidents? Does this compare to Thatcher's funding of the Khmer Rouge in the 1980s?


I'm not defending his actions in supplying money to Palestinians, I don't know enough about it. As usual neither do you but you've made up your own story anyway and will stick with it regardless of reality.
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He gave the money to Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization. Why is that so hard to admit?

Croydon Bob said:
This is also not correct.

He has done work for "Press TV", but comparing that to working for the regime in Iran is almost like accusing someone who works on Sesame Street of working for the US regime. A state-owned TV station is not the same as the Government, as anyone who has watched BBC news will understand (not that I would trust an Iranian-owned station, or any channel that employs Galloway). He doesn't "reguilarly" apologise for the Iranian regime, you are mistaken again, he did spout a load of offensive nonsense about gay rights in Iran on one occasion.

Thank you for providing further evidence that the Galloway haters are just spewing lies and fiction to try to support their non-skeptical beliefs.
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PressTV is the mouthpiece of the Iranian regime, Sesame Street is not the mouthpiece of the US government.
 
MarkCorrigan said:
How about hating him for supporting Saddam Hussein,
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Exaggerated, misrepresented. And do you hate every UK PM and US President throughout the decades that Hussein was in power, funded and tooled up by the US, UK, France, etc?

MarkCorrigan said:
the USSR (I'm a socialist and I think that's indefensible)
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Evidence? He's frequently on record as denouncing Communists for supporting the USSR. Here, for instance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17783704 where he accuses Aaronovitch of supporting the USSR. Although, of course, he also claimed to hate Trots right up to the point where he formed a temporary alliance with the SWP to support Respect.

MarkCorrigan said:
and abandoning his own constituents to bugger off and act like a complete tit with Rula Lenska on national television?
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You win that one.

MarkCorrigan said:
How about hating the man for committing to support an area of London, and trading off his support of Islamic groups in order to get the largely Islamic community to back him and vote him in, then turning his backs on them like the corpulent jackass he is?
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Yes, but again, no worse than most politicians.

MarkCorrigan said:
What if I hate him for his ideas about sexual etiquette, when he claimed that even if the accusations against Assange were correct that having sex with a woman who is asleep is not rape?

Yup, that's a good example of something he actually did or said that was bang out of order. But not something that the right wingers care about. They hate him for fictitious stuff about supporting terrorists, they couldn't care less about his dodgy record on women's rights.

MarkCorrigan said:
What about if it was for his pro-Iranian stance, denying that gay people are executed claiming only rapists are?
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I already mentioned that. Peter Tatchell quite correctly gave him a good verbal kicking for it.

MarkCorrigan said:
How about denying that the Tiananmen Square massacre happened, and when he was called on it tried to weasel out of it by saying all he said was that there was no massacre IN the square?
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Arguable.

MarkCorrigan said:
As for your assertion he gave the cars and money to the Ministry of Health well...no.

Source.
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You've found one source. Use of a popular internet search engine and a browse around non-right-wing-loony sites doesn't particularly support it.
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